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In 2001, when WWE's Vince McMahon bought WCW, officially bringing the Monday Night Wars to an end, it changed wrestling forever. It also changed careers forever. Diamond Dallas Page was one of WCW's biggest acts, winning three world heavyweight championships and multiple other titles in his decade long run with the promotion. He became one of the first WCW megastars to join WWE, showing up as the stalker of the Undertakers' wife. This is seen by most as his official WWE debut, but it wasn't really. Eleven years earlier, in 1990, DDP actually had a small part in WrestleMania 6, in a blink and you'll miss it moment.
DDP Has A Cameo Appearance In WrestleMania 6
In 1990, Page wasn't the star he would become. He wasn't even in WCW yet. DDP first started out doing color commentary of all things with the legendary Gordon Solie in Florida Championship Wrestling. In 1989, he would wrestle his first ever match.
His first introduction to WWE came in 1990 when he had an audition to be a color commentator with the company. Luckily, he didn't get the job, or we would have never gotten the Hall of Fame wrestling career. It wouldn't be Page's only time in contact with WWE that year, however. Soon, DDP would be part of the biggest show in the world, WrestleMania 6. Remembered as one of the greatest WrestleManias thanks to the historic match between Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, it also serves as the debut of DDP in WWE...sort of.
In 1990, The Honky Tonk Man and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine were a tag team known as Rhythm and Blues. At WrestleMania 6 they wouldn't have a match, but they would have a segment that saw them get attacked by The Bushwhackers. For their segment the pair, with their manager Jimmy Hart, rode to the ring in a pink Cadillac convertible, driven by none other than Diamond Dallas Page.
"Well, I didn't know if that was going to be my only opportunity ever," DDP told Lucha Libre Online’s Michael Morales Torres. "So just being a part of WrestleMania was a big deal. I didn't get the gig because I was Diamond Dallas Page. I got the gig because Luke, the Bushwhacker, is a friend of mine, and he would come to my nightclub. He saw I had this '62 pink Cadillac convertible and he ended up calling Pat Patterson with me there. This car is why I got the gig." (h/t Sportskeeda)
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DDP Later Had A One-Year Run In WWE After They Bought WCW
It would take eleven years for Diamond Dallas Page to reach WWE again. Before that, he made himself a household name in the wrestling world in WCW. That success, unfortunately, did not translate to his short run in WWE. Page debuted in 2001 with the perfect setup; a feud with The Undertaker. DDP was a heel who stalked Taker's wife. The angle didn't work and Page's time in WWE didn't really work after that either.
There were injuries and bad gimmicks, but in 2002, a dozen years after the first time, DDP appeared in WrestleMania again. This time he got to show just how far he'd come. Page wasn't just some no name guy driving a car. He was a WWE superstar, victorious in his match against Christian. A few months later though he would suffer a neck injury at the hands of Hardcore Holly, which forced him to retire from the ring at the time. He would later wrestle for the likes of TNA and AEW, and appear several times on WWE TV. No matter what DDP did in wrestling, his first big moment will always be the time he drove a Cadillac at WrestleMania, even if no one knew who he was.
